womens suffrage

[rosiekins5]

Why were Western states more apt to give women the right to vote prior to the 19th Amendment?

[jno]

possibly because of the respect accorded pioneer women, whose life was very hard. Not meek little housewives like their sisters back east. That's just a guess; but Wyoming was I think the first place to give women the vote, and New Zealand - another frontier territory - the first country.

[Lonnie]

In Britain at least, they also bombed and terrorised their way to the vote,